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A new Vintage edition of Sebastian Faulk's second novel, a beautiful story of love and conscience which begins when a young girl takes up a post at the Hotel Lion D'Or in a small French town in the 1930s.
Synopsis
Begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid 1930s. This is a story of love and conscience, will and desire.